• Suvudu has 5 questions for David Anthony Durham (Acacia).


• StarShipSofa interviews Danie Ware of Forbidden Planet.


• Gabriel McKee on Why John Scalzi is wrong about SF and religion . Well, sorta...


• J.M. McDermott shares why indie bookstores are extremely nifty: "Independent bookstores reflect the inner life of the community that they serve."


• Listen to Robert J. Sawyer (Rollback) on CBC Radio One's science program Quirks & Quarks.


• No Fear of the Future has an SFWA update on proposed Google Books/Author's Guild settlement.


• Rich Horton continues his 2008 summaries of shoprt fiction venues with reviews of Talebones, Jim Baen's Universe, Abyss & Apex, Lone Star Stories, Ideomancer, Kaleidotrope, Flytrap, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Electric Velocipede.


• Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]
  • @Afterburn SF: "The Magic Menagerie" By Yvonne Eve Walus.
  • @Every Day Fiction: "Death is a Weird Shade of Pink" by M.Sherlock.
  • Audio Fiction:
    • @Spider on the Web: Spider Robinson reads his story "The Magnificent Conspiracy."
    • @Escape Pod: "Silence" by Rachel Swirsky, read by Ann Leckie.
    • @LibriVox:
      • Short Science Fiction Collection 007, read by many readers.
      • Jimbo by Algernon Blackwood, read by Adrian Praetzellis.


• Remember that idea a had waaaay back about building your own customized anthology? Here's a site that will do it for you. [via File 770]


• HelpVera is a fundraiser and charity auction with the goal of helping speculative writer and publisher Vera Nazarian save her house from foreclosure.


• Justine Larbalestier shares a video of a marvelous Lego Batman cake.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday December 07, 2008 at 12:06 AM
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